Chapter 36:
Wilhemina walked on and on, and Seras tried to look happy to have her along, but the knot in her stomach only gripped her more.
It did not take long to reach the village of Easterly; in fact, Seras could barely feel the time pass, except for the fact that the moon kept getting higher into the zenith point above her. The village was bare, all the windows and doors were shut. The homes were very cottage like in appearance, and the only way they could tell that there was anyone in there was that in a few houses candle light showed through cracks of the windows.
"I wonder why no body seems to leave at night…" Wilhemina stated looking at the appearance of the place.
Seras shrugged and walked along, looking for the carriage that was promised, but she did not see any. What seras did see, though, was Wilhemina getting anxious to get out of there.
"Are you sure the place is 't he have been mistaken?" Wilhemina asked with wonderment in her eyes as she seemed to get a gut reaction against the place they were in.
Seras knew what she meant; the place did have an eerie feel in the air.
"This is the place, or, it should be." Seras said, somewhat truthful as she was unsure herself.
"SHOULD BE!?! What do you mean should be?" Wilhemina questioned, almost to the point of hysterics.
"I'm just following…" Seras sentence was cut short when she saw Wilhemina flop forewords. It was a big black dog like animal on Wilhemina's back, and two more came from the sides of the village. Seras was frozen as the two others growled and came foreword, eyes of yellow glaring at her. Wilhemina's screams were startling and the black dog like creature on top of her flipped her over, and started to scratch at her arms and legs. Seras realized then by their formation that she had seen them earlier; that they were not similar but the same dog creatures that had attacked her.
Seras did not want to attract their eyes anymore and slowly backed up, Wilhemina getting more and more bloodied by the second.
Well…they will most likely get me either way… I'll break for it. Seras thought, and it seemed that the creatures were reading her very mind. Seras' eyes meet theirs, and she knew instantly that it was now or never. She turned around, and ran; and as she expected, they followed, even the one that was on top of Wilhemina.
Seras could feel the ache in her bones, legs especially, but knew that she had to try. She did not look back, knowing that if she did so it would mean her death. She looked up, and saw that the moon was now in the zenith above her, which told her that it was finally midnight, but that would not matter much if she was killed by evil dog creatures, she thought.
Seras's legs gave out, and she fell to the floor unable to run any longer. She flipped herself over to face her opponents; she decided that she was not going to be an easy meal. She moved her arms above her face to brace for their jaws like before, but this time it was different. The first one jumped at her to bite into her again, but a hand on her back pulled her up out of the way, the creature narrowly missed biting her foot.
Seras looked in wonderment as she saw the vicious dogs unable to get her. She felt herself on something, and turned around to see that she was on a seat in a carriage of a medieval kind, horse drawn. The guy that had pulled her up looked familiar, and then she remembered, it was the same one who attacked D by shadow in the forest in what seemed like a long time ago. His eyes were piercing, and Seras felt unnerved by them, but she was not afraid as he had just saved her from something she thought could have been worse.
"Damn things…they get to be annoying." He commented as he closed the door, and sat back before he continued, "But don't worry, they can not get in here."
Seras stared at him, and the carriage before asking, "Are you the one my father sent to pick me up?"
He snapped his fingers to set the carriage in motion and replied, "Yes, though I did not know it was you the other time."
Seras relaxed a bit more, though, she had no clue where she was going or exactly who he was, but the aching in her bones was being relieved by the enjoyable ride.
Meanwhile, Alucard and D sat there, D getting bothered by the length of time it was taking while Alucard kept himself amused at the fullness of the moon and commented how it was a nice night to drink blood.
"I don't care whether it's a nice drinking night…" D said, getting a little angrier by his hand agitating him.
"Hmm…not a blood drinker?" Alucard mused at the thought of his own relative not drinking blood.
D said nothing, but glared at him, and Alucard tipped his hat back and laughed to himself with D's usually collected self now showing a little irritation.
Alucard was about to comment again, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he heard a scream that was not his own. Alucard and D looked at each other in realization that something had to have gone wrong. Alucard started to run in the same direction the girls went earlier, and D found his horse and hopped on riding after Alucard as quickly as his horse would take him.
D's horse went faster then Alucard could run and so D got there first, and when he did he saw Wilhemina on the floor, hysterical. She was bleeding similarly to when he found Seras originally, and he got off his horse to check her wounds.
"Dogs…beasts..attacked, and went after Seras." Wilhemina managed to say once D had calmed her down a little. Alucard came right around the corner on the last part of her saying "after Seras" and he had a question in his eyes.
"Watch Wilhemina." D said without emotion, and he jumped back on his horse and rode as quick as he could. He saw foot prints, and then the dogs still chasing Seras.
D called out to Seras, but she had already fallen, and he knew she could not hear him in her tiredness. He withdrew his blade to attack the beasts, but then he saw the carriage and the next thing he knew, she was gone and so was the carriage.
D felt a rage in him, she was his link to Alucard, although, he now had him to kill. Still, something stirred in him and he was not sure what. The dog creatures growled at him, and D glared back with his glowing red eyes.
As D already had his sword out, the one that jumped up became completely severed in half when D brought his hand down. The other two dogs growled, but were smarter then to do a repeat performance. D was not amused; he jumped off his horse and kicked the one that attempted to attack him. The dog creature crashed onto the ground with a thump, but got up after a moment of being stunned by D's initial moves. The other one did not get the chance to attack; D's sword slashed the ground in front of the beast making it jump back and become blinded with the dirt. Next thing the beast knew, D was in front of him wit his sword poised to strike. The beast growled and tried to lunge, but was fighting blind, and D's sword hit its mark right through the middle of the beast, pegging him to the ground. D looked at his dying enemy unchanged, but knew that there was one left.
D turned around and the last beast was there low to the ground in attack mood, teeth bare. It dodged back and forth as it made to strike at D, but D moved left using his cape like a toreador would a bull. The beast became angry and went straight at D, all his power in it. D stood there, unmoving, and at the last second took his sword and skinned the beasts sides, cutting its stomach open with the slightest effort. He looked at the beast uncaringly, and kicked it a few times despite the fact that it was way past dead.
When D was satisfied, he cleaned his blade so that it was spotless, and went back onto his horse which he then road to see how Wilhemina was doing. It took him no more then a minuet to get back, and when he did, Wilhemina was drinking the last of the blood packs, and Alucard was watching over her with some pity in his eyes that he wasn't there to kill the beasts, not that she got hurt.
Wilhemina looked up at D, and he knew the question in her darkened eyes before she could even say it.
"No…she was taken into this carriage." D said plainly, hiding his eyes under his hat.
"A carriage…?" Alucard asked even more amused at the story.
"No, a too bit donkey..of course a carriage!" D's left hand answered for him, and D looked down not realizing that the parasite was out already, but not caring to put it back.
Wilhemina was feeling a little better; her wounds were still deep, but not as bad as they could have been if Seras had not decided to run.
Alucard mused at his answer and replied, "Hmm…and what kind of carriage?"
Left hand looked back and forth and opened his mouth as if to speak and closed it again, " Oh yea, I know..it was medieval..had a bad air around it, pure evil, I know."
"Can you track it then?" D asked, and his hand shook its face no.
D growled a little, but then he noticed his left hand grabbing something at his side, one of his pouches, the one with the letter from Lord Lucian in it.
"What is it now!" D asked with more agitation in his voice.
"There is something similar to the carriage…didn't you see the insignia? It was the same." Left hand said as if it was the most obvious thing ever.
All of them shared a confused gasped expression, and stared at each other expressionless.
Wilhemina was the first to speak, "Well, I guess that means we still have a hunt in store for us."
D nodded and Alucard smiled, but they realized that the setting of the moon here was slightly different from in other places, and so it was quicker to them, or they thought so. They went to the end of town, D's hose carrying Wilhemina as she could not walk and neither D nor Alucard felt like carrying her. At the end, Alucard accident stepped on something that made a thud sound, and when he looked down, there was a wooden door, more of a storm cellar, and they decided that would be good, all except for the horse, but D was not worried about him.
So Alucard was forced to help Wilhemina down and into the cellar, and D walked in behind them, though, he knew he could go on, he also knew his hand would yell at him for it. They settled there for the day, not saying much, though, Alucard did examine the wine racks a little before finding a well corner and drifting off. Wilhemina slept curled up using her hands for pillows, and D found a nice sturdy chair to sleep on.
Woah, sorry that took so long, but, I've been XX from concerts and CAN"T WAIT TIL OTAKON! I had to finish my Alucard costume…Lol..so sorry it took so long, but it was good cause ,, and more still to come!